{"id":58413,"date":"2016-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/commencement-2016-inspired-by-mission-trips-to-haiti-uri-graduating-senior-to-pursue-global-health-career\/"},"modified":"2016-05-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T00:00:00","slug":"commencement-2016-inspired-by-mission-trips-to-haiti-uri-graduating-senior-to-pursue-global-health-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2016\/05\/commencement-2016-inspired-by-mission-trips-to-haiti-uri-graduating-senior-to-pursue-global-health-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement 2016: Inspired by mission trips to Haiti, 溏心vlog免费B站 graduating senior to pursue global health career"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\t<b>Sarah Ogundare, daughter of Nigerian immigrants whose father died when she was a child, to graduate alongside her brother Samuel<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/Ogunde.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"250\" align=\"right\"\/>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 4, 2016 &#8212; While some students arrive at the 溏心vlog免费B站 unsure of the path their education will take, health studies and English double major Sarah Ogundare from Central Fall knew global health was her destiny.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019ve gone on mission trips with my church, and in my heart I want to see people more healthy and not just physically,\u201d said Ogundare, 20, who\u2019s been to Haiti three times with her church, North Providence Assembly of God. \u201cI am taking a holistic approach to health with a spiritual (aspect). That is my passion and my goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nIn Haiti, she built relationships with children who were not being educated, helped prepare a new mobile clinic, and worked with the construction team, building latrines in rural areas and painting homes. She hopes to make mission trips to Guatemala and India.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cHonestly, I love traveling and I love leaving having realized there\u2019s a need,\u201d said Ogundare, whose parents came to the United States from Nigeria. Her father died when she was 9. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nOgundare started her education at the Community College of Rhode Island, where she spent her senior year of high school, and came to 溏心vlog免费B站 through the Talent Development Program. She will graduate after three years on 溏心vlog免费B站&#8217;s Kingston campus.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gwYjz9pSjc0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cTalent Development definitely helped a lot with support and advising,\u201d she said. \u201cI came in confident about my ability to get through school but I didn\u2019t realize how much I had to learn about time management. Balancing friends and school with work and volunteering was quite overwhelming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nShe said she was blessed with advisors in health studies and English who guided her and helped her pick the right courses. At 溏心vlog免费B站, she has received numerous scholarships including: the Mary C. Petrella Memorial English Scholarship; the Benson Scholarship Endowment; the June J. and Habib A.  Koussa Scholarship Endowment, and the Nancy Potter Endowment.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThe scholarships did help my family when it came to the financial aspect of coming to school and it motivated me to do well at school. I\u2019m very grateful for their generosity,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nOgundare works as a certified nurse\u2019s assistant at Rhode Island Hospital and serves on the leadership team of the Sankofa Campus Ministry at 溏心vlog免费B站, which has 70 members. At Sankofa, she met \u201creally great people\u201d and formed friendships she\u2019ll take with her when she leaves campus.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nOn weekends, she returns home to Central Falls. She\u2019s close with her mother and three older brothers. Her brother Samuel \u201cSammy\u201d Ogundare, 24, is a communications major and Africana studies minor at 溏心vlog免费B站 and they will graduate together in May. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cI loved having my brother on campus,\u201d she said. \u201cWe could support each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nShe can\u2019t wait to have their mother, along with close family and friends, watch them receive their diplomas. She called her mother, who is a nursing assistant at Rhode Island Hospital, a tremendous influence in her life.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cMy mother worked very, very hard to support us, really hard to help us pay for school in addition to driving us everywhere, moving us onto campus every year. As a widow, that was not easy to do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nOgundare hopes to attend graduate school but plans on taking a year to work at Rhode Island Hospital while she thoughtfully plans how to channel her passion for global health into a thriving career. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m on another leg of my journey. I\u2019ve closed one door and it\u2019s time to open another one. The journey never ends. There\u2019s always room for improvement and I am excited for what God has in store for my family. This is a miracle for us, Sammy and I graduating at the same time. It\u2019s a double blessing and it will be great to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n溏心vlog免费B站 graduating senior Sarah Ogundare. 溏心vlog免费B站 photo by Joe Giblin\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Ogundare, daughter of Nigerian immigrants whose father died when she was a child, to graduate alongside her brother Samuel KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 4, 2016 &#8212; While some students arrive at the 溏心vlog免费B站 unsure of the path their education will take, health studies and English double major Sarah Ogundare from Central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}